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Sacred land : Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature / Mark Buechsel.
Van Pelt Library PS3501.N4 Z549 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buechsel, Mark, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Anderson, Sherwood.
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
- American literature--Middle West--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Intellectual life.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Middle West--Intellectual life.
- Middle West.
- Regionalism in literature.
- Middle West--In literature.
- Protestantism in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 371 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An American Venus and virgin: the sacramental dynamic of the Midwestern land
- Protestantism, literalism, and the sacramental body of the Midwest
- Winesburg under the sway of "New Englanders' gods": Puritanism, industrialism, materialism, and the Midwestern fall
- "The fields fell into the forms of women": sexual and gendered associations of the land in Horses and men
- Laughing at "fake talk": the guttural silence of the Midwestern land in Dark laughter
- Fleshly but beyond just flesh": the salvific sacramental meaning of the land in Poor white and Beyond desire
- "I'm a good Catholic, but I could get along with caring for trees": nature and sacramental community in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia
- "A story of the West, after all": the sacramental and Midwestern pastoral subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby
- The return to "hard, natural things": from pastoral delusion to rock-bottom reality in Ruth Suckow's The folks
- Sacramentalism in a postmodern farm novel: Ginny Smith's spiritual journey in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781606351567
- 1606351567
- OCLC:
- 822229871
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